appropriately devoted to the Goddess of Retribution. The statue
wore a crown, and had wings, and, holding a spear of ash in the
right hand, it was seated on a stag.]

[Footnote 96: _One difficulty_)--Ver. 941. "Scrupus," or
"scrupulus," was properly a stone or small piece of gravel which,
getting into the shoe, hurt the foot; hence the word figuratively
came to mean a "scruple," "difficulty," or "doubt." We have a
similar expression: "to be graveled."]

[Footnote 97: _A knot in a bulrush_)--Ver. 942. "Nodum in scirpo
quaerere" was a proverbial expression implying a desire to create
doubts and difficulties where there really were none; there being
no knots in the bulrush. The same expression occurs in the
Menaechmi of Plautus, l. 247.]

[Footnote 98: _Of course----Then be it so_)--Ver. 951. "Nempe id.
Scilicet." Colman has the following remark on this line: "Donatus,
and some others after him, understand these words of Simo and
Pamphilus as requiring a fortune of Chremes with his daughter; and
one of them says that Simo, in order to explain his meaning, in
the representation, should produce a bag of money. This surely is
precious refinement, worthy the genius of a true Commentator.
Madame Dacier, who entertains a just veneration for Donatus,
doubts the authenticity of the observation ascribed to him. The
sense I have followed is, I think, the most obvious and natural
interpretation of the words of Pamphilus and Simo, which refers to
the preceding, not the subsequent, speech of Chremes."]

[Footnote 99: _He is not rightly bound_)--Ver. 956. "Non recte
vinctus;" meaning "it was not well done to bind him." The father
pretends to understand him as meaning (which he might equally well
by using the same words), "non satis stricte," "he wasn't tightly
enough" bound; and answers "I ordered that he should be,"
referring to his order for Davus to be bound hand and foot.
Donatus justly observes that the disposition of the old gentleman
to joke is a characteristic mark of his thorough reconciliation.]

[Footnote 100: _Their joys are their own_)--Ver. 961. Westorhovius
remarks that he seems here to be promulgating the doctrine of
Epicurus, who taught that the Deities devoted themselves entirely
to pleasure and did not trouble themselves about mortals. Donatas
observes that these are the doctrines of Epicurus and that the
whole sentence is copied from th